The Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Market (MIFA) will host the Namaste MIFA! India‘s Accomplice Pitch occasion on June 11, that includes six animation tasks from eight Indian creators throughout the pageant’s fortieth anniversary celebration.
The curated pitching session is organized by India’s AniMela Pageant.
The showcase presents a various slate of latest Indian animation tasks spanning a number of codecs and genres. Featured works embrace “Work in Progress,” a 70-minute animated documentary directed by Subarna Sprint and Sneha Das that follows younger city Indian ladies navigating womanhood of their mid-late 20s by way of six chapters of “hilarious, relatable, and typically awkward tales.”
Among the many quick movies is “My First Kiss,” a 15-minute social and emotional drama by director Shrobontika Dasgupta that addresses little one sexual abuse by way of the story of Little Rani and her imaginary buddy Mr. Rooster. The movie goals to “evoke conversations round good contact and unhealthy contact in each family by way of a private story.”
“Patangein,” directed by Arya Pandey, presents a 15-minute drama set in Previous Lucknow, specializing in a younger barber dealing with grief whereas haunted by visions of kites that remind him of his deceased brother. The story culminates in a symbolic second the place kites soar, “echoing a journey dwelling.”
The journey quick “Daak,” directed by Rahul Chakraborty, follows 15-year-old Dukhe within the Sundarbans as he encounters Dakshin Ray, a shapeshifting tiger deity, in a 20-minute folktale about environmental safety and non secular transformation.
Two sequence tasks spherical out the lineup: “Penumbra,” a psychological thriller by Taher Kapadiya that includes 20-minute episodes about spirit hunters capturing supernatural entities in a realm the place “superstitions manifest as tangible horrors,” and “M.O.M – Ma On a Mission,” created by Rituparna Sarkar and Sruti Menon, a 25-minute household comedy following an Indian mom with secret superpowers whose son will get kidnapped into an alternate digital dimension.
The occasion is co-partnered by Institut Français, Ambassade de France en Inde, Assemblage Leisure, and Zebu, representing AniMela’s ongoing initiative to showcase Indian animation expertise on the worldwide stage.
Initiatives span a number of languages together with English, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, and Malayalam, focusing on audiences from youngsters to households, demonstrating the breadth of latest Indian animation storytelling.
Presenting at Annecy’s work-in-progress function movies class is “Heirloom,” directed by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya. Set in Nineteen Sixties Ahmedabad, the India-Germany co-production follows younger businessman Kirti, who crusades to protect handlooms, and his spouse Sonal, who’s dying of a hereditary illness and argues they need to enter the powerloom business to safe their household’s future. The story explores their alternative “between shifting ahead or giving in to nostalgia after they encounter a tapestry that illustrates their complete household historical past.”
The “Heirloom” workforce consists of producer Arya Menon from Odd&Even Footage, animation director Gaurav Wakankar, co-producer Fabian Driehorst from PomPom Animation, and govt producer Arpan Gaglani from Philm CGI, representing Otter Studios.
